Quotes
About Traveling
The
traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, or
experience. The tourist; is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to
him. He goes "sightseeing."
--Daniel J.
Boorstin. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, 3.2, 1961.
If
it is better to travel than to arrive, it is because traveling is a constant
arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained
by going to sleep or dying.
--John Dewey.
Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology, 4.1, 1922.
Coningsby:
There is nothing I should like so much as to travel
Stranger: You are traveling. Every moment is travel, if understood.
--Benjamin
Disraeli. Format adapted. Coningsby: Or, the New Generation, 3.1, 1844.
If an Ass goes a-traveling,
he'll not come home a Horse.
--Thomas Fuller. Comp.,
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, 2688, 1732.
The
soul of a journey is liberty, prefect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one
pleases.
--William Hazlitt.
"On Going a Journey," Table Talk, 1822.
Remember wherever you go
there you are.
--Earl MacRauch. The Adventures
of Buckaroo Bonzi Across the Eighth Dimension (film), 1984.
To travel hopeful is a
better thing than to arrive.
--Robert Louis Stevenson.
"El Dorado," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881.
Only that traveling is good
which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
--Henry David Thoreau. Journal,
11 March 1856.
My advice to any traveler
who is traveling in order to learn would be: "Fight tooth and nail to be
permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way."
--Arnold Toynbee. Experiences,
1.6.2, 1969.
Afoot and light-hearted I
take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path
before leading wherever I choose.
--Walt Whitman. Open lines,
"Song of the Open Road," 1856, Leaves of Grass, 1855-1892.
All quotes taken from:
Frank, Leonard Roy. Quotationary,Random
House, New York 1998. Travel.